Situ Gintung Dam Burst in Indonesia, Reminds Tsunami

by OldSailor on March 27, 2009

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Situ Gintung Dam in Indonesia burst this morning (March 27, Friday) around 0200 local time, when people in the nearby area were sleeping without any option to flee. This has reminded the people of Indonesia, deadly Tsunami of December 26, 2004.

Dam: The 10 metre high dam at the time of collapse, was having about 2 million cubic metres of water at a lake fed by the Pesanggrahan river. The dam was built almost a century ago and heavy rains caused the dam to first overflow and then, because the foundation was not made of concrete, to burst.